How to Foster Creativity in Gifted Children

Creativity can be a natural for many gifted children. Some seem to be born with an innate ability to draw, paint, build, or express ideas in a creative way.

That said, creativity is also a skill than can be developed. In fact, creativity is a skill that parents can foster within their gifted children. The key is finding what your child is interested in, and then, providing them opportunity to explore that interest in creative ways.

By fostering creativity within your gifted child, you can help them mature emotionally, mentally and socially. Allowing them to explore and create their own creative interests can also help them to build confidence.

Creative exploration can start with fine arts but can also delve into math and science. Creativity truly knows no limits.

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Great Ways to Foster Your Child’s Creativity

1- Drawing and Painting Art

While drawing or painting can get a little messy, providing your children with a selection of brightly colored paints, crayons, chalk or colored pencils will allow your children to develop their creativity.

If they are stuck for what to draw or paint, make a few suggestions and allow them to choose from one. Or even tell them to start drawing and see what develops. This free-form style can truly help them to foster their own style.

When they are drawing and painting, make sure you don’t correct their color choices. If they want their alligator to be pink, that is them being creative, don’t put a damper on that.

2- Explore Nature

Exploring nature offers many opportunities for creativity. Your children can gather rocks, leaves or pebbles of different shapes and colors. Then, use them for art projects when they get home.

This will inspire them to use their creativity to create something beautiful from random pieces they collected in nature. It also serves as lessons in science and discovery.

Provide them resources such as glue, string, and toothpicks to go along with their gathered items. Then, simply let their hands and minds guide whatever they come up with. There is no right or wrong way to be creative. That’s kind of the point.

4- Write or Tell Stories

There are several ways to use stories to encourage your kid’s creativity. You can read stories aloud together. You can also tell made up stories together. Or, why not write your own books with a story line your little ones dictate.

6- Role Play

Build forts, play grocery store or be astronauts. The possibilities are endless.

Pretend games are an amazing way to boost your little one’s creative thinking. Not only does role playing allow your kids to be whoever they want to be, but these games challenge kids to learn how to blend their own creativity with others.

7- Go on Field Trips

Family field trips to concerts, museums and shows will introduce the opportunity for you to teach your children about how other people’s imaginations work showcasing how they express their ideas through their own creativity.

Showing how much art, literature and music is valued by society, and how exciting it can be for people to take in the things that other’s creativity has made can inspire them to give it a try themselves.

Maybe they have a fascination for robotics. Building a robot from LEGO, or paper, or bits and pieces found around the house requires a tremendous amount of creativity. Add to that the creativity associated with coding a robot and you’ll quickly discover that robotics is more than just science and math.

Both architecture, and robotics require creativity and exploration of thoughts and ideas. But, they aren’t the only STEM topics that do so. Creativity can be found in many areas of learning.

Author: Renee

Renee is Christian, wife, mom, author, and blogger. On her blog, you'll find encouragement for helping you to seek a life of peace, discussions about family, marriage, homeschooling, and gifted education. These discussions center around seeking and finding peace through Biblical guidance and patterning life after God's design for marriage.
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